Peccary - Lincoln Park Zoo Poem by Ima Ryma

A peccary, humans call me.
South America's Chaco plain
Is home to my pig family,
Where cacti is the diet main.
I use my tough leathery snout
To roll the cacti on the ground,
Bite the thorns off and spit them out.
The cacti is then tummy bound.
For ages, humans thought that I
Was just a fossil long extinct.
But humans found me by and by.
And now I hope we're better linked.

Come visit the Lincoln Park Zoo,
And see that I exist. I do!